Exclusive: Pier Paolo Piccioli spent decades as creative director at Valentino, where he returned to filmmaking and created costumes for his final project before making headlines. objects and other thingsThe latest film from Italian film director Riccardo Vannuccini.
The indie British-Italian co-production stars Greta Bellamacina. The Bellamacina character's costume was designed by Pierre Paolo for Valentino and included a custom-made blue dress with a six-metre train made for the film. Get a first look at the film and Pier Paolo's costumes below.
Paolo Piccioli left Valentino in March after working for the company for over 20 years. The designer joined Valentino in 1999 alongside his former collaborator Maria Grazia Chiuri. The two were appointed co-creative directors in 2008. After Chiuri left for Dior in 2016, Piccioli took on the role of sole creative director. objects and other things This isn't Paolo Piccioli's first foray into film. In 2019, Italian designers challenger Short film director Luca Guadagnino a girl who stumbles, starring Julianne Moore, Kyle MacLachlan, and Mia Goth. The film featured couture looks by Paolo Piccioli and premiered in the Director's Fortnight sidebar at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival. This short piece was composed by legendary Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto.
objects and other things Continuing in 2023, it is also the latest collaboration between Vannuccini and Bellamacina. comedy. objects and other objects revisit comedian's The characters of Irene (Bellamacina) and Rocco (Vannuccini) find themselves playing and wandering freely in a haunting post-industrial landscape filmed on the Tuscan plains. Locations include abandoned buildings, abandoned theme parks, farmhouses, slaughterhouses, and abandoned schools.
The cast consists of Maria Sandrelli, Alessandra Piscopo, Alba Bartolia and Gabriele Guerra. objects and other objects This is Vanuccini's second libretto in Italian and English. The original soundtrack is by Italian composer Pietro Freddi. The director of photography is Manolo Cinti.De Crescenzo said in the comedy:). The film was co-produced by Rome's Artestudio and Britain's Sulk Youth.
Discussing the project with us this morning, Vanuccini explained: objects and other things A continuation of his last project and an exploration of how “anything can happen”.
“The impossible is understood as the possible, and it implies a loss of time as it is taken away from the everyday, from reproduction, from spectacle, from cinema,” he said. “Our heroes mysteriously escaped from where they were. But where were they? They are busy doing nothing, doing small things, leaving traces of their past, traces of their imagined presence in the world. Scratches, noises, silence, poses, runs, drinks, cuts, escapes, kisses, steals. The world they live in is a post-industrial landscape, a world scarred by 20th century industry and sadness, but they discover and create beauty within it. “They are the classic romantic fugitives.”
Check out the first stills from the film and Paolo Piccioli's costumes below.
Artestudio and Sulk Youth.
Artestudio and Sulk Youth.